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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...needed to turn around our season,"Denniston said. "This was our biggest match of theseason, and we wanted it really badly...

Author: By Zachary T. Ball, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Volleyball Dusts off Dartmouth | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...budget deal. So many members showed up to voice their grief and anger that House minority leader Dick Gephardt had time only to read their names. "It speaks volumes about how much progress we've made," says Winnie Stachelberg, lobbyist for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's biggest gay-rights group. "Yet Matthew's death shows how much farther we have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Gay Struggle | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...would then have legal standing to test these laws. The federal law would also be vulnerable to challenge. In other words, the nation would begin anew the wrenching debate over marriage under way in Hawaii today. However, if the amendment is approved, gays may have to set aside their biggest issue for years to come. They will have lost the biggest on-the-ground political war they have fought in a generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Better Or Worse | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...detail has escaped Wynn's notice. "New hotels are always a blessing and a curse, but if well done, they stimulate the public's interest in Vegas," says Wynn, CEO of Mirage Resorts, Inc., and the son of a gambler who came to Las Vegas in the 1960s. The biggest stimulus at the Bellagio, of course, is Wynn's $300 million collection of works by, among others, Miro, Picasso, Matisse, Leger, Modigliani, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Pollock, de Kooning and Jasper Johns, and sculptures by Giacometti and Brancusi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Las Vegas--Over The Top: In With The New | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

Adelson made a fortune in the trade-show business, and he financed some of the Venetian's construction by selling Comdex, the world's biggest trade show, for $900 million. Although Las Vegas does plenty of convention business, Adelson wants to compete for the monster shows that now go to Chicago's McCormick Place or Orlando's Orange County Center, in Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Las Vegas--Over The Top: In With The New | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

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